Contents of the start directory

General

In the start directory you will find all entries of your menu, directories for submenus. To sort them they are now named like 1_foo 2_bar and so on. This way you got more control in what order they appear in the startmenu. To create entries, you can edit a file and write it into it or you can echo the syntax into a file. The second way is far more easy.
If you use the bash you simply type in the following:

echo "Exec \"XEmacs\" exec xemacs &" > 2_xemacs

That will write the contents between the double quotes into the file 2_xemacs, in the menu the contents between the second double quotes and the backslashes will appear. The backslashes are only there to prevent bash from trying to interpret the quotes. So in the menu there will appear XEmacs. Of course you also can echo longer commands into the file like exec xterm -n "My Term" -T "My Title of the term" -e myapp. Just watch for the backslashes.
If you put for example
Exec \"The Editor of Gods\" exec xemacs &
then xemacs will be executed but "The Editor of Gods" will appear in the startmenu.
Every file you copy in the start directory will appear in the startmenu when you choose Update startmenu.
Also directories will appear as sub menus in the start menu. So feel free to categorize your files in directories. Example for directories in start:

XIterm
XTerm
Applications/
          |--------Editors/
          |	   |-------Emacs
     	  |		   VI
          | 		   Xedit
          |--------File
		   |-------TkDesk
			   MC

Games/
Graphics/
Modules/
.........

Should be easy, heah?
You also can create shortcuts for the entries in the startmenu. For directories you just need to create a directory like the following:
Stuff\ \&S
Again the backslashes are for the shell. Now you can access that directory with the key s. For the entries in the menu do the following:
echo "Exec \"XEmacs\ \&X" exec xemacs &" > 2_xemacs
Then you can acces XEmacs with the key x.

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